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Re:Forth – The Early Years (1991) by fra on Monday August 31, 2015 @12:16PM (#10147495)
The bootloader for Sparc systems @ Sun is still OpenBoot, written in Forth: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Firmware

I worked on it a bit, though it doesn't change much beyond bug fixes these days.

Peripheral vendors still routinely provide FCode drivers in the server space.

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